Thomas Minor (1608 - 1690)
emigrated from Chew Magna, England to New England where he has become the progenitor of many descendants.
A basic reference for this Minor/Miner family ancestry is "Thomas Minor, Descendants, 1608 - 1981"
by John Augustus Miner (1981). Many of those surnamed Minor or Miner living in the United States are
descendants of this Thomas of Chew Magna, England.

This page is a tabulation of the sixth generation of the
Thomas Minor family, their parents, and their descendants down through the USA federal census of 1850.
The sixth generation has been subdivided into four branches based on primary residence of the parents
in either Woodbury area, New London,
Lyme, or Stonington, CT.
The sixth generation continues the scattering of the Miner family throughout North America.

Thomas Miner was born near Middletown, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1796 and
subsequently taught in Goshen, New York. Later he studied law but abandoned his practice in 1803
to study medicine under Dr. John Osborne. Because there was no public medical school in
Connecticut at the time, Miner was granted his license by the Connecticut Medical Society.
in the spring of 1807 he began practice at Middletown, and in the autumn of 1808 moved to
Lynn, Massachusetts. After working in Lynn, Dr. Miner worked briefly in Lyme, Connecticut
and finally settled again in Middletown, where he built a thriving medical practice.
In 1809 a malignant epidemic called spotted fever prevailed in the Connecticut valley,
and in combating it he adopted a new method of treatment, which was the cause of much discussion.
Miner was one of the founders of the Yale Medical School, serving frequently on the school's
examining committee. In 1819, Yale awarded Miner with an honorary medical degree.

He is buried in Miner Cemetery on Miner St off route 217, Middletown, CT (41.57944, -72.70833)
with his brother Gilbert

Sources: Virgil Huntley; Bailey Family Genealogy Forum; Genealogy.com; 12-18-2004
James received a pension for his service in the Am. Revolution and Esther,
as his widow, received one also. James died in Sheffield, Caledonia Co., VT
11 SEPT 1843. Esther was issued her pension certificate 15 OCT 1845.
Esther's death and Anna Bailey's death are not listed in Family Records.

2514 William Chester (22 Jun 1834 - 26 Mar 1920)
He was the main character of "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and
the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (1998)

Clement Stebbins (6 Dec 1793 - 1 Nov 1871)
m 16 Jan 1821 Lydia Dominy (17 Jan 1799 - 2 Jun 1866)
daughter of Capt John Dominy.
Settled in Chazy, NY where a couple generations later his farm (Heart's Delight)
1.5 miles west of the village at 1034 Miner Farm Rd became an agricultural research center
called The Miner Institute.
Chazy also has the Alice T Miner Museum at 9618 Main St.
Both buried in Riverview Cemetery, Chazy, Clinton County, NY.

Rev Erastus (1808 - 1863 IL) m Marilla Herdine [Hardin]
Erastus was a well-known Baptist minister in New York, prior to moving to Illinois.
He was listed as the minister of the First Baptist Church of Monmouth starting in 1846,
then served other Baptist churches in the Monmouth area. He signed his
"Last Will and Testament" on 20 June 1863, and died less than a month later

Primary reference is the Barbour index to CT vital records before 1850 which is stored at the
CT State Library in Hartford, CT and also available
on microfilm and as a series of softbound books put out by the Genealogical Publishing Co.

Many of the female lines are continued in Richard Wheeler's "History of the Town of Stonington" (1900);
but beware of a few errors in the dates. Additional descendants are continued in William Cothren's
"History of Ancient Woodbury, CT" (1854). The Parkhurst Manuscript (c.1935) at the New London CT
Public Library describes many of the New London and Lyme families. Numbering system taken from
"Thomas Minor, Descendants, 1608 - 1981" by John A Minor (1981) which continues many of the lines
for several generations.